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PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,256 posts) Wed Oct 15, 2025, 10:31 PM Oct 15

My hair has stopped growing. [View all]

I'm 77, in excellent health, no Covid ever. Haven't had flu since 1974 and I don't bother with flu shots. Haven't had a cold in at least ten years.

Everyone should be as healthy as I am.

But why my hair should stop growing has me puzzled.

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My hair has stopped growing. [View all] PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 15 OP

Why you don't get flu shots has me puzzled NoRethugFriends Oct 15 #1

Why bother? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #11

Maybe so that if you get it again, you don't get very sick or die? NoRethugFriends Oct 16 #13

Fifty years with no flu, I think I somehow PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #14

Me too. There was a flu epidemic in NY ( 77? 78?) when I was riding marybourg Oct 16 #15

I likewise road public busses in DC PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #16

It's just reversed course, that's all Submariner Oct 15 #2

LOL! pandr32 Oct 15 #4

'zactly! n' double quick too! ain't life a miracle! (or mystery?) - -(nt)- stopdiggin Oct 15 #5

Eye brows too. Have to trim them every day. multigraincracker Oct 15 #6

You must be a male. For the most part, we women don't grow eyebrows in old age. If anything, they turn gray and hairs PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 15 #8

Alas, I have even less nose or ear hair than ever before. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 15 #7

Oopsie! my bad Submariner Oct 16 #9

stopped growing or it just isn't growing as fast? Skittles Oct 15 #3

My hair has also stopped growing. Somebody else's hair is growing in its place: JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 16 #10

Nice to know this has happened to someone else also. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #12